Subsurface 4.7 / 5.0

[Tomaz Canabrava]

(From phone)

Actually it's fairly simple to add more dives on the profile, I think I can
hack this the next week.

Tomaz

On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 at 19:43, Robert Helling <helling at atdotde.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 20 Jan 2017, at 19:29, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>
> We have several key developers who are somewhere between "HATE C++" and
> "rather write C code". The more we move to C++, the more we lose their
> support.
>
>
> I would love to help move the mobile version forward and if I could do
> that while moving the whole project forward I am all for it. But as Dirk
> writes, my previous attempts were very limited in success: My main obstacle
> is that the initial investment is quite high: In the desktop version, I can
> do something productive with just 30min of time.
>
> But for the mobile version, I am not at that stage. Whenever I tried, it
> took me several hours to just setup my system to be able to build a binary
> that runs. And often enough not even that. At that point, I love done zero
> productive work, because it took me so long to just reproduce what others
> already did. And then, if I leave it for some time, the underlying things
> changed so I typically have to start all over to figure out what is not
> working for me.
>
> If we manage to get around this problem, I promise I will produce useful
> code for the mobile version (which I would love to see improving). But the
> current model does not work for me and I agree with the Dirkhh that it
> would be a total nightmare to adopt the desktop version to this model.
>
> I would say, right now, we have a bit of time. I am willing to invest some
> time into the mobile version again (in case I get the impression i can
> contribute). If we overcome these problems for good, then it might be
> worthwhile to unite the codebase even more. But let’s prove we can do that
> first.
>
> As an alternative for somebody who wants to tackle a project of more than
> trivial size: Currently, our profile code can handle only a single dive (or
> dive computer if you like). There are several things one could do if one
> could overlay several profiles. But allowing this requires some work. This
> might be a project for somebody who is looking for a challenging project…
>
>
> Just my $.02
> Robert
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